Woman cited for breast-feeding and driving on I-5

Updated 1:00 pm, Thursday, August 27, 2015

A Washington state trooper Wednesday night stopped a woman in Everett who had been breast-feeding while driving on the freeway.

It apparently wasn't the first time she had done that and explained that she was feeding while driving to stop her 1-year-old son from crying.

Trooper Mark Francis, spokesman for the Washington State Patrol in the Everett area, sent out this tweet.

Trooper Mark Francis, spokesman for the Washington State Patrol in...

A trooper cited the 43-year-old Mountlake Terrace woman for having an unrestrained child, an infraction which carries a fine of $136.

About 7 p.m., a caller to 911 alerted troopers to a woman driving down Interstate 5 with a baby in her lap. A trooper pulled her over at northbound I-5 and 41st Street in Everett.

When the trooper walked up to the woman's car, he saw that she was breast-feeding her child, Trooper Mark Francis said.

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The woman admitted to feeding the child and driving. She said she had been stopped before for doing that, Francis said. The woman said when her son gets hungry, he cries loudly.